Meat wrapper and process for making same



Patented June 15, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MEAT WRAPPER AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME.

N Drawing.

This invention relates to meat preserving wrappers for hams and the like, and to the process for making such wrappers; and the object of the invention is to'provide a specially treated and sanitary wrapper for preserved meats of all kinds, which wrapper is designed to exclude air, water, dust and all foreign matter, and so keep the meat in first rate condition at all times.

The invention consists in taking absorbent paper and thorou hly saturating one side thereofwith pyroligneous acid (liquid smoke). The reverse side of the paper is glazed or coated with any Waterproofing substance, such as liquid parafiin. The

paper is then dried.

he paper so prepared may be used as ordinary wrapping paper for wrapping up the meats, or the paper may be formed into sacks, as desired. For use, the waterproofed side is turned outwardly. If preferred, the waterproofing may be omitted, and both sides of-the paper maybe treated with the pyroligneous acid.

.to exclud'ei-water and dust.

Application filed August 27, 1925. Serial N0. 52,957.

The pyroligneous acid at one side acts to 25 impregnate the meat with a pleasant, pungent taste, and to drive away insects and bacteria. The paraffin at the other-side acts I claim:

l. The process of making meat wrappers, consisting in taking paper and treating one side thereof with pyroligneous acid, and treating the oppositeside with paraflin.

2. The process of making meat wrappers, consisting in takin absorbent paper and treating one side thereof with pyroligneous acid and the opposite side with some waterproofing substance.

3. As an article of manufacture, meat Wrapping paper, consistingof paper treated upon one side" with pyroligneous acid and upon the opposite side with some waterproofing substance. v p i In testimony whereof I afiix my signa-' 45 ture.

COURTLAND c. CAMPBELL. 

